People and Culture Manager

About Meatable

Meatable is on a mission to satisfy the world’s appetite for meat without harming people, animals, or the planet by making 100% real, delicious meat. The company cultivates meat from only one cell, producing sausages, burgers and ultimately steaks without harming a single animal, but with the true experience of eating tasty, real meat.

Meatable is transforming from a science-focused start-up to a consumer-focused, end-to-end food scale-up. This entails a lot of changes and international challenges whilst we want to remain focused on the team and it’s culture.

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on HR expert with a big heart for people who wants to understand and strengthen our company culture towards the future!

One sentence summary

To install effective HR / People management practices to attract, develop, and retain talent and foster a positive Meatable culture that enables an environment where people and performances thrive.

About the Role

Your role consists of two parts. First of all you are end-responsible for the entire employee journey. The moment they hear about Meatable for the first time till the moment they leave for another challenge (and a bit longer). Here you will be responsible for the processes around recruiting, retaining and developing our entire team. Some examples of those processes are the salary framework, development cycle our learning platform. Next to being responsible we are looking for someone that can take these processes to the next level to get ready for international expansion.

Part two involves the culture and the love for people. We are looking for someone with a strong people management skillset who can and wants to strengthen our team culture. This culture can be summarized in our people mission:  “together as one team of compassionate changemakers we thrive”. The match we are looking for is someone with strong empathic skills and the energy to initiate and drive new projects or improvements for our team and its people.

For both parts you will be requested to advice our Management Team when making strategic decisions (this is not a MT role). You will report to our Head of Transformation & Execution, contributing and co-shaping the organizational development, thus moving our organization towards achieving its purpose and/or objectives by enabling and motivating people to manage, drive, and embrace organizational change.  And last but not least, together with the People and Culture team you will be the thermometer of the team and act accordingly.

Experience/Qualifications

• A love for People & Culture with a passion for scaling processes in line with our culture
• 5+ years of HR/People and Culture Management experience, preferably in a fast growing and international company
• Master’s degree in Human Resources and/or Business related field
• Proven experience in streamlining and improving processes and troubleshooting through strong stakeholder management.
• Experience in leading People and Culture related projects. Preferably salary framework, development and succession planning and Employee administration.
• Excellent working knowledge of HR related topics. E.g. employee engagement, compensation and benefits, social security laws, work permits and cross border working regulations and GDPR.
• Fluent in English, both verbal and in writing.
• This is a full-time role based in Leiden the Netherlands.